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Ozzy Osbourne

Shot In The Dark

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“Shot in the Dark” is a song from Ozzy Osbourne’s 1986 album The Ultimate Sin and was written by then Ozzy Osbourne’s bassist Phil Soussan. The song’s lyrics were supposedly inspired by the movie Prizzi’s Honor. An earlier, much slower and different version was derived from the original when Soussan was in Wildlife two years earlier. However Osbourne had favored the original song, wanting to create a new version of it, and Soussan had to re-write the song including the lyrics. Osbourne then requested 50% ownership of the song as a condition of recording it. The video features a girl traveling with her friends to an Osbourne concert, and eventually turns into part of a billboard advertising Osbourne. Dweezil Zappa can easily be seen playing a cameo part in the live crowd in... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Just a shot in the dark ... But a shot in the dark one step away from you ... They'll remember they'll surrender

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